Who is Alejandro Balde, the new young wonder that Barcelona has?
For many years, the Barcelona Soccer Club It has been carrying out a wonderful job regarding youth training. The result, clearly, is the promotion of great talents season after season, which ended up being very important for the first team, giving sporting and financial results.
In fact, what was for many the best team of all time, with Joseph Guardiola sitting on the substitute bench, featured footballers like Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta and Carles Puyol, among others. Yes, part of the backbone of a lineup that won absolutely everything and was marked for posterity.
Of course, and despite the problems that have arisen in recent years, in Barcelona the aforementioned work in the minor divisions was not interrupted. On the contrary, if the Blaugrana were able to come out on top, it was largely due to the contribution of young wonders like Sergios Busquets Ansu Fati and company. And that trend continues.
At present, Barcelona is carrying out a market of extraordinary passes, disbursing enormous amounts of money in the signing of high-ranking footballers. But, at the same time, he also relies on players who continue to appear from the academy, one of them being the left back alexander bucket.
Who is Alejandro Balde?
Alejandro Balde is a left winger of just 18 years old who was born in the city of Barcelona, in Spain, although his father is Bisauguinean and his mother is Dominican. He joined the formations of the Blaugrana entity in 2011, when he was just 7 years old, so he has spent more than half of his life at the club.
It should be noted that, previously, Balde had had a stint in the formation of Espanyol, the other most important team in Barcelona. In turn, when he ran in 2021, he had his first professional contract with the team tactically led by Xavi Hernández. He has a termination clause of 500 million euros.
In September 2021 he made his professional debut with the Barcelona shirt, where he accumulated eight official matches. At the same time, Balde served and continues to serve in the various youth teams in Spain. He even won the Under-17 Extentos Tournament, a preparatory contest for the 2020 European Championship.